very often I get complains/request from users about things that I'm not able to control (like width of the sidebar etc...)

so, here are some plain stuff, maybe you are aware of it maybe not... anyway, others can benefit

• sidebar is part of Opera UI (user interface) and it is hard-coded in Opera
• it is a surface for extensions to live/work in it (something like popup showed on toolbar buttons click, "usual" Chrome extensions)
• sidebar works in two stages
  a) not visible at all, user must open it from O-menu>Extensions>Sidebar (or CTRL+SHIFT+S)
  b) if it's visible, it may or may not have extension active/opened in it
• installed sidebar extensions have icons on sidebar buttons list (narrow stripe on the left edge) for open/close them
• extensions can NOT control dimensions of the sidebar, only users by action (eg. grab and resize) and sidebar extensions can not start on it's own, only by user actions, clicking sidebar button or with keyboard shortcut (if sidebar stripe is visible)

couple of my other sidebar extensions have sidebar button to open/close them, AND toolbar button for extra features
but click on toolbar button (next to address bar) can't open sidebar extension... it's not meant to do that by design
...and like i wrote before, I can't control that sidebar stripe on the left edge (you wrote that you can't scroll page if you push mouse far left)

I had to watch the YT video several times to get it. I wish I could have played it in slow motion.
That's not your fault obviously you understand how to use your V7 Bookmarks extension very well.

I have only encountered one problem with it. I do not like that when closed, the left edge of my screen is not usable. For example I am in the habit of moving my pointer to the left edge of my screen when scrolling. That is just a habit I have.

Anyway I am suggesting that if possible when closed a dark star could be in the area to the right of my Opera address bar. Almost every other extension is positioned in that area.

Because there are people with different skill levels that might not understand that you posted a link to V7 Bookmarks earlier I am going to post a traditional link below.

https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/v7-bookmarks/

it's for separators... to better organize your bookmarks, if you need that...
YT video example

Yes but it took me a while to find "setting" in the bottom left corner. I have no idea what the bottom right slider that changes color from Red to Blue actually does???

For example one said open Opera settings then click on import and export - so that one did not work because I could not find import and export anywhere in settings.

Those are instructions for Opera Presto (Opera 12.18 and older) and they do not apply for Opera Chromium (Opera 15+).

I should have been more clear that the "Bookmarks Import & Export" extension works very well.

I wish I could edit that earlier post because I see your point my earlier post is confusing.

If that extension did not work I would not have posted a link to it.

Just to be clear the link below is to an extension that works well.

https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/bookmarks-import-export/

Was that last post some kind of spam?

(Ha Ha a little joke). You created the "V7 Bookmarks" extension and took your sweet time telling me about it.

I'm an old man and need a nap before I check out your extension. It looks complicated to my old, tired and feeble mind.

The "Bookmarks Import & Export" extension works well, but it only does imports and exports.

have you tried V7 Bookmarks ?
there is an export functionality on settings page

I did a Google search on how the export Opera bookmarks in HTML. I found there is an Opera extension "Bookmarks Import & Export".

The ways described in my Google search for earlier versions of Opera do not work in my Opera 36.0

https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/bookmarks-import-export/

@davehawley

It would have been smarter to "copy" the bookmarks file to "Documents" then open the copy, save as rich text and rename it. I was lucky that the way I did it, the original bookmarks file was not changed in any way.

better solution would be to export your bookmarks as HTML
this way you can open it in any browser as document (not only in wordpad, and then click to default browser)
and also you can import that HTML file in any browser in it's own bookmarks system

I opened it with WordPad just because I wanted to see the contents of the Bookmarks file. Then it occurred to me I could save it as a document. Not to reinsert it but just as a backup. Because I used Rich Text the listed URL's are live. That means I can use the Opera Bookmarks document and click on a link and that will open in any browser I set as default. I can also edit the Bookmarks document because there is a lot of text that could be deleted. The live links are pretty much all I need in my document.

I copied the whole Opera folder to my external hard drive. So bookmarks are in there.

I did get an email about your comment. I found Bookmarks and opened it with WordPad then saved it in Rich Text (links are shown in blue and are live in rich text). I saved the bookmarks as a document.

I'm working on backing up the whole Opera folder, but I never turned on "file history" in Windows 10 and likely this is not the way to backup the Opera folder.

I know I can "copy the Opera folder" to my external hard drive. But I am very unsure of how to restore or reinsert it when needed.

I will look at About opera.

In the Good Ole One your can easily do that.
Even with nuOpera, it stores your bookmarks in a file, which you could copy to an external drive etc.